[  Mood: Amused ]
Tonight Team Cthulhu had an impromptu game night event. It was pretty off the cuff and the only thing I wanted to play was Pirates! I was a little late out of the gate because of prior evening events (I blame our host for hauling me to a bar where I gave my money to struggling unclothed young women in need of financial assistance). Anyway, I got the ham and beans cooking and we were off!

We started with Wizkids Pirates! and set out the always cool oceanic table and 3 d islands.

Ahoy!

We all headed for various and sundry wild islands trying to avoid one another at first…

That didn’t last long though as Ed developed a taste for battle and sent his whole fleet after Corey’s armada of fast moving junks (trust me, there were tons of ‘junk’ jokes…we are gamers after all).

In the distance, conflict was brewing.

Which turned into one of the biggest fleet vs fleet fights we’ve seen so far. Many rules were debated. I am going to look at the errata asap.

Corey went on to win what was a fairly close round. He really did put together a great fleet.

Of course all of this overseen by the mighty Sherman, in a stylin’ Team Cthulhu shirt. He is seeking a sponsorship here.(The bloodthirsty Pirate Ed is in the background)

After that we decided to play some HorrorClix. Craig suggested with number of people we do a scenario type game and suggested a Dawn of the Dead type scenario he had from on line. We didn’t have a mall map, so we used an office map. We then divided into two teams of 400 points each, three to a side, survivors vs. zombies.

Survivors: Myself, Ed and Sherman.

Zombies: Corey, Mike and Craig.

This proved to be a pretty evenly matched game (in spite of some griping by Mike to the contrary). We set up and started moving our forces into position.

Battle split into two fronts, with Sherman and Ed trying to contain Corey’s forces of zombie sorrority girls and lawyers on one side…

and my very effective force of two agents and a priest creating a killer bottleneck on the other.

On my side the slaughter was pretty immense and I only lost one guy. It came down to my remaining forces against one lone zombie lawyer. Corey conceeded making this my first ever HorrorClix win (and my team of course).

Being full and tired we decided to play some Fantasy Munchkin to finish out the night.

Things got wild at the end…

All in all, for an off the cuff TC game night, a good time and some good eats.